Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREyITIEs.

Cleveland is actively working for re-
nomination.
| ormonde won the Imperial gold cup at
the Newmarket.
Roscoe Conkling is in Chicago but re-
fuses to talk politics.
The Society of Christian Endeavor has a
membership of 10000.
Germany, Austria and Italy are negotiat-
| ing for closer alliance
A house in Virginia City was struck by
lightning on Wednesday.
Peter Coffee has been arrested for the
murder of Charles Way last May.
Georgia regulators threaten to run three
Mormon missionaries out of the State.
Decided opposition is manifested at
Washington to the proposed admission OF
Utah as State.
A number of Cinnamon were caught
| while making into the United States from
British Columbia.
The Palestine Society is buying pieces of
land in Palestine, upon which it is pur-
posed to found Catholic stations.
George Smith fell dead at the Monmouth
| Park races on Wednesday when he learned
that the horse he bet on was defeated.
Erbard, one of the men on trial at Leip-
sic TOR treason, has been liberated, the
charge against him not being sustained.
Mrs. Lucy Simard, of New York, was
| yesterday hit by piece OF lofty chimney
which was partially demolished by light
ming.
The three days celebration of the Fourth
of July aAd the completion of the North
ern Pacific Railroad closed at Tacoma on
Wednesday.
Canadian cholera is more prevalent this
season than for many years. Children are
dying at Montreal from cholera infantum
at an alarming rate.
| A terrible famine prevails at Skagefiord,
Iceland, and many peasants and thousands
of cattle want food. The distress of the
people is increasing.
The Missouri Supreme Court, in the case
of Brooks, alias Maxwell. has overruled
the motion for rehearing. A reprieye was
granted until August Goth.
The party which assembled Mount Hood
on the Fourth encountered much ice and
snow, and was lost in the woods during
| the night on the return trip.
Harry Nevins shot and killed James
Both we've soldiers temporarily stationed
A syndicate has been formed to build a
| motor road to the new town of RoseCrans,
Los Angeles county, erect fine hotel there
and develop the natural gas. A strong
vein OF gas was struck there.
Notice has been sent to General Howard
| that the five Apaches who recently went on
the warpath in Arizona, will be tried by
| court martial. The Indians who Joined
| them will he tried subsequently
Sheriff Cunningham, of San Joaquin
county, arrested Z. f. Sutton at Dos Pal
mos. He alleged that Sutton had en-
| bezzled 81 800 from his employers, whose
bookkeeper he was, and had decamped.
In view of the recent daring train rob-
berries in Texas, eight trusty train-men on
each passenger train will be sworn in as
| rangers, armed and invested with all the
authority of the rangers on the regular
force.
A terrific sand and wind storm visited
Phoenix, A. T., on Wednesday. For more
| the air with dust and gravel, blowing down
trees, and driving every one indoors. The
| thermometer fell ten degrees.
The contempt cases for the violation of
an injunction by A. Heilbron and others,
owners of the Laguna Detached Grant,
plaintiffs, against the Seventy-six Canal,
| the Fowler Ditch, of Centerville and
| kingsburg, the Kings River and Fresno
| Canal Companies, were dismissed on the
ground that there was an abundance of
water flowing in the river, and no damage
was done.
1t is reported from Idaho that number
of Chinese mining camps along the Snake
river have been raided either by Indians
or whites. A number of mutilated bodies
of Cinnamon have come down the stream,
four or five being found together few days
since. 1t is thought to be the work of
white men, who robbed the Chinese of
their gold dust. 1t is said that the Chinese
Minister at Washington has been informed
| of the outrage.